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LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes 03-31-2009, 03:29 PM   #1 (permalink) JimmyD Junior Member   Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 15 Turks and Caicos gold coin Hello, I have a coin that was given to me by my father many years ago, and niether of us really know anything about it. It is a gold coin, dated 1988. The Coin has a picture of a lobster and says WWF 25th Anniversary and 100 Crowns. On the reverse it says Queen elizabeth, turks and caicos 1988. I have not been able to find the coin at all on the internet, and was wondering if you guys could help me identify it? I cannot post a picture at the moment as my camera recently died. Help appreciated, thanks.   03-31-2009, 03:42 PM   #2 (permalink) borgovan Supporter**   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,825 I think you've identified it. It was issued by the Turks and Caicos islands, and is indeed gold (assuming it's real.) I had one once; it was encased in a soft plastic, attached to a cardboard holder. Is yours like this, or is it loose?   03-31-2009, 04:28 PM   #3 (permalink) JimmyD Junior Member   Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 15 Right now it is in an airtite, I cannot say whether it originally came in any packaging, I was given it when I was young. But do you have any information regarding it? I cannot find anything on the internet in regards to a 100 crown gold coin with a lobster and WWF 25th anniversary written on it....   03-31-2009, 05:02 PM   #4 (permalink) borgovan Supporter**   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,825 What kind of information do you want? WWF is the World Wildlife Fund, in this case. I can't find much on it either, which isn't uncommon with Turks and Caicos coins, or at least, in my experience. You might want to borrow (library? friend? coin shop?) a world coin book. It may be listed there. Perhaps another CoinTalk member who has one will look it up for you. Unfortunately, I don't deal much with world coins, so I don't have one.   03-31-2009, 07:22 PM   #5 (permalink) chrisild Coin Collector     Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NW · DE · EU Posts: 2,298 Should be a 10g gold (Au916.6) coin. More info is available at www.numismaster.com for example (the basic search is free). The 25th anniversary of the WWF was the occasion to rename the fund; it has been the "World Wide Fund for Nature" (except for North America) since then. The gold coin was part of a series; there was also a 1 crown piece in silver and Cu-Ni. What I find a little odd is that this anniversary was in 1986 while this coin is dated 1988 ... Christian   04-01-2009, 12:54 AM   #6 (permalink) silvereagle82 World Gold Collector     Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Gulf Coast Posts: 916 My Mood: JimmyD, I'll add - Mintage is estimated at 5,000 pieces - As Christian stated in should weigh 10.000 grams and is 91.7% gold equalling .2949 oz. AGW(actual gold weight) -References include Krause/Mishler#65 and Friedberg #26 __________________ NGC COLLECTORS SOCIETY The Crown Collection - World Gold (Last Update: June 7, 2009)   04-02-2009, 04:02 AM   #7 (permalink) spock1k King of Hearts   Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 11,562 yes its a most amazing piece __________________ There is only one king   Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google Would you like to support CoinTalk? Coin Talk Code of Honor 1. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. 2. Keep it clean, like a 1950s family television show. 3. If you don't like the coin, don't trash the person. « How can I know if this is authentic | Canuck It! » Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Display Modes Rate This Thread Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Rate This Thread: 5 : Excellent 4 : Good 3 : Average 2 : Bad 1 : Terrible Posting Rules You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On Forum Rules Similar Threads Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post Yrivia: Millennium Coins Part 7 More Caribbean Clinker Coin Chat 0 03-07-2008 01:17 PM 1976 Turks and Caicos Islands Bonedigger World & Ancient Coins 11 04-22-2007 05:36 PM Coin Oddities De Orc World & Ancient Coins 15 01-31-2007 07:34 PM LinkBack LinkBack URL About LinkBacks

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